Hello. The #1 reason I am moving my organization to Wild Apricot is the event management module and its integration with the overall system. I have reviewed every social networking, club or association management and event management web app I can find and not one of them do small, frequent event or activity (such as weekly club meetings) management well. Meetup.org comes the closest, but no cigar. Same with Facebook events.
Believe me, I know what I am speaking of in this regard. I have been an IT professional for 25 years and am currently the Vice President of HR & Systems (including software development) for a fifty person company that makes highly interactive web sites for elearning. See etrafficsolutions.com
On the side, I have a social activities business, and the event management software I want is for that. See socialcircles.ca. I do my own websites and have had many of them over the years.
I am very tempted to just hire the people to create an event management web app, probably using PHP/AJAX, because it is not really too complicated and AJAX makes for a very user friendly interface. Since no one is doing a really comprehensive job of this particular functionality, there is probably a nice little market for it too. However, I would rather focus elsewhere and let you add the bit I need to your already excellent system.
One thing yours does not yet do, which is a wish list request from me, is to allow people to get on a waitlist when an event is full. In other words if ten people have registered for an event with a limit of ten attendees, then I would like any additional persons who would like to register to have the option of going on a waitlist. If someone registered cancels, the first person on the waitlist automatically gets an email telling them they are now registered or can register. The email, or the page it links to, might have a “decline registration” button. If they decline, the next person on the waitlist gets an email. And so on. Or something like that.
Please let me know if this functionality is anywhere in your future plans.
Thanks